Hardback, 195mm x 125mm red cloth boards, gilt titles, first edition, 476pp. Fair/NoWrapper. Spine bumped, has been handled along with boards. Front hinge loose. Block clean apart from foxing to edges and also top pages at beginning and end. Engaging tale of the secretive Catholic order written by a noble Englishwoman and edited by her daughter. Catalogue: Classic Literature. Keywords: Jesuit, leone, Hamilton, Italy View more info

Hardback, 8vo red cloth boards, gilt titles, first thus, xii prelims, 298pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrations by C.E. Brock. Fair/Good. Tight and solid, with text clean and unmarked. Spines a little bumped. Edges ragged where cut, with some foxing. Dustwrapper has some shelfwear along top, with spine darkened and frayed small loss at ends, but covers basically clean. Volume nine in the ten-volume Works of John Galt set, edited by D S Meldrum and William Ro... View more info

Hardback, 8vo red cloth boards, gilt titles, first thus, xxii, x prelims, 374, 394pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrations by C.E. Brock. Fair/Good. Both volumes tight, clean and solid. Some bumping of spine and corners. Edges ragged where cut, with some foxing. Dustwrappers are basically clean, with a little shelfwear, spines bumped and darkened, 1/2 sq cm of loss to base of spine of v2. Volumes four and five in the ten-volume Works of John Galt set, edited b... View more info

Hardback, 222mm x 139mm blue cloth boards, gilt titles, first thus, 491pp. Good/NoWrapper. No d/w. Book has been read, spine and boards bumped and scuffed, spine also grubby with foxing-like marks. Block a little darkened with edges dusty. Orginally published in 1928, this is a novel whose treatment of lesbianism may seem tame to a modern audience but caused a storm in its day on both sides of the Atlantic. Catalogue: Classic Literature. Keywords: Radclyffe, lesbian, ... View more info

Hardback, 195mm x 130mm maroon decorated boards, gilt titles, , iv prelims, 331pp. Black and white illustrations. Illustrations by Cyrus Cuneo, G.H. Fair/NoWrapper. Spine and boards nice and clean with minimal wear. Block has notable foxing to edges, also affecting opening/closing pages. Book printed on thick paper stock, now creased from reading near spine. Small stain on rear board. Originally published in 1868, this is a later edition of Macdonald's novel, illust... View more info

Hardback, 20cm x 13cm maroon cloth boards, gilt titles, first thus, xxii prelims, 262pp. plus advertisments, Black and white illustrations. Illustrations by F.H. Townsend. /NoWrapper. Book is much read, spine faded, bumped. Boards also bumped but clean. Private library sticker to front endpaper. Block edges a little grubby and ragged, since book was produced uncut. Originally published in 1829 and 1828, these works of prose and verse are here combined in a later ill... View more info

Hardback, 190mm x 126mm blue and marbled half leather binding, gilt titles, first thus, 445pp. plus index, /NoWrapper. Binding good and tight,spine and boards bumped with some surface fraying. Foxing to block edges, also to opening pages but pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Vol. XVII in Centenary edition of the Waverley Novels contains his only major work of fiction with a 19th century setting. Catalogue: Classic Literature. Keywords: Scott, Waverley, centenary View more info

Hardback, 190mm x 126mm blue and marbled half leather binding, gilt titles, first thus, 480pp. plus index, Good/NoWrapper. Binding good and tight, spine and boards bumped with some fraying at edges and corners. Isolated foxing and a little staining to block edges, foxing also to endpapers and to isolated pages near edges but pages otherwise clean and unmarked. Vol. XXII in Centenary edition of the Waverley Novels contains Scott's tale of love and feuding in medieval ... View more info